Age of Ancient Empires
Timeline 1-7
Week 1
- AGE OF ANCIENT EMPIRES
(Creation - c. 450 A.D) - Creation and the Fall
- The Flood and the Tower of Babel
- Mesopotamia and Sumer
- Egyptians
- Indus River Valley Civilization
- Minoans and Mycenaeans
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Timeline 8-14
Week 2
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Patriarchs of Israel
- Hittites and Canaanites
- Kush
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- China’s Shang Dynasty
Hinduism in India
Timeline 15-21
Week 3
- Hinduism in India
- Phoenicians and the Alphabet
- Olmecs of Mesoamerica
- Israelite Exodus and Desert Wandering
- Israelite Conquest and Judges
- Greek Dark Ages
- Israel’s United Kingdom
Early Native Americans
Timeline 22-28
Week 4
(1000 B.C.)
22. Early Native Americans
23. Israel Divides into Two Kingdoms
24. Homer and Hesiod
25. Rome Founded by Romulus and Remus
26. Israel Falls to Assyria
27. Assyria Falls to Bablyon
28. Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha
Judah Falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed
Timeline 29-35
Week 5
- Judah Falls to Bablyon, Temple Destroyed
- Babylon Falls to Persia
- Jews Return to Rebuild the Temple
- Roman Republic
- Golden Age of Greece
- Peloponnesian Wars
- Persia Falls to Alexander the Great
India’s Mauryan Empire
Timeline 36-42
Week 6
- India’s Mauryan Empire
- Mayans of Mesoamerica
- Punic Wars
- Rome Conquers Greece
- Roman Dictator Julius Caesar
- Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana
- John the Baptist
Jesus the Messiah
Timeline 43-49
Week 7
- Jesus the Messiah
(Year 1 A.D.) - Pentecost and the Early Church
- Persecution Spreads the Gospel
- Herod’s Temple Destroyed by Titus
- Diocletian Divides the Roman Empire
- Constantine Legalizes Christianity
- India’s Gupta Dynasty
Council of Nicea
Timeline 50-56
Week 8
- Council of Nicea
- Augustine of Hippo
- Jerome Completes the Vulgate
- Visigoths Sack Rome
- THE MIDDLE AGES
(c. 450 - c. 1500) - Council of Chalcedon
- Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians
Byzantine Emperor Justinian
Timeline 57-63
Week 9
(500 A.D.)
57. Byzantine Emperor Justinian
58. Benedict and Monasticism
59. Muhammad Founds Islam
60. Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa
61. Franks Defeat the Muslims at the Battle of Tours
62. Golden Age of Islam
63. Vikings Raid and Traid
Japan’s Heian Period
Timeline 64-70
Week 10
- Japan’s Heian Period
- Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe
- Alfred the Great of England
- Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers
- Vladimir I of Kiev
- Byzantine Emperor Basil II
(1000 A.D.) - East-West Schism of the Church
Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe
Timeline 71-77
Week 11
- Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe
- The Crusades
- Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa
- Aztecs of Mesoamerica
- Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas
- Japan’s Shoguns
- Incas of South America
Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols
Timeline 78-84
Week 12
- Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols
- England’s Magna Carta
- Ottoman Empire
- Marco Polo’s Journey to China
- The Hundred Years’ War and Black Death
- The Renaissance
- China’s Ming Dynasty
Age of Exploration
Timeline 85-91
Week 13
- AGE OF EXPLORATION
(c. 1400 - c. 1600) - Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation
- Slave Trade in Africa
- Gutenberg’s Printing Press
- Songhai in Africa
- Czar Ivan the Great of Russia
- The Spanish Inquisition
Columbus Sails to the Caribbean
Timeline 92-98
Week 14
- Columbus Sails to the Caribbean
(1500 A.D.) - AGE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHS
(c. 1500 - c. 1800) - Protestant Reformation
- Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas
- Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Council of Trent
- Baroque Period of the Arts
Japan’s Isolation
Timeline 99-105
Week 15
- Japan’s Isolation
- Jamestown and the Plymouth Colony Founded
- AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
(c.1650 - c.1800) - Hudson’s Bay Company
- First Great Awakening
- Classical Period of the Arts
- The Seven Years’ War
Age of Industry
Timeline 106-112
Week 16
- AGE OF INDUSTRY
(c. 1760 - c. 1969) - James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica
- American Revolution and General George Washington
- Madison’s Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- French Revolution
- Second Great Awakening
- Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition
(Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France)
Timeline 113-119
Week 17
- Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France
- Liberation of South America
- The War of 1812
- The Missouri Compromise
- Immigrants Flock to America
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Romantic Period of the Arts
(Cherokee Trail of Tears)
Timeline 120-126
Week 18
- Cherokee Trail of Tears
- U.S. Westward Expansion
- Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto
- The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision
- U.S. Restores Trade with Japan
- British Queen Victoria’s Rule Over India
- Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species
(Lincoln’s War Between the States)
Timeline 127-133
Week 19
- Lincoln’s War Between the States
- Reconstruction of the Southern States
- Dominion of Canada
- Otto von Bismarck Unifies Germany
- Boer Wars in Africa
- The Spanish-American War
- The Progressive Era
(Australia Becomes a Commonwealth)
Timeline 134-140
Week 20
- Australia Becomes a Commonwealth
- Mexican Revolution
- World War I and President Wilson
- Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
- U.S. Evangelist Billy Graham
- Modern Period of the Arts
- The Great Depression and the New Deal
(World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Timeline 141-147
Week 21
- World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre
- The United Nations Formed
- The Cold War
- Ghandi and India’s Independence
- Jewish State Established
- Mao and Communist Victory in China
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Timeline 148-154
Week 22
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- The Korean War
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
- Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Missionaries to Ecuador
- The Antarctic Treaty
- The Vietnam War
- U.S. Astronauts Walk on the Moon
Timeline 155-161
Week 23
- AGE OF INFORMATION AND GLOBALIZATION
(c. 1970 - Present) - Watergate, President Nixon Resigns
- Fall of Communism in Europe
- European Union Formed
- Apartheid Abolished in South Africa
(2000 A.D.) - September 11, 2001
- Rising Tide of Freedom
U.S. Presidents
Week 24 (Timeline)
- Washington
- Adams
- Jefferson
- Madison (and)
- Monroe
- Adams
- Jackson
- Van Buren
- Harrison
- Tyler
- Polk (and)
- Taylor
- Fillmore
- Pierce
- Buchanan (and)
- Lincoln
- Johnson
- Grant (and)
- Hayes
- Garfield
- Arthur
- Clevland
- Harrison
- Clevland
- McKinley
- Roosevelt
- Taft
- Wilson
- Harding
- Coolidge
- Hoover
- Roosevelt
- Truman
- Eisenhower
- Kennedy
- Johnson
- Nixon
- Ford
- Carter
- Reagan
- Bush (and)
- Clinton
- Bush
- Obama
- Trump
- (Joseph) Biden (our 46th president, it’s for him we pray)
